Paralympic athletes arrive in Tokyo from Afghanistan
Two Paralympic athletes from Afghanistan – Zakia Khudadadi and Hossain Rasouli – arrived in Tokyo to compete in the Games on Saturday evening.
Details on how the couple left Kabul were not disclosed, but several governments and other agencies helped, International Paralympic Committee spokesman Craig Spence said.
“This is a really complex situation, one of the most complex we’ve ever been involved in,” Spence said in a briefing on Sunday. “So what we can say is limited. Human life is the most important thing here. Having athletes here is not about having media coverage. It’s about these athletes fulfilling their dream of being able to attend the Paralympic Games.”
It is not clear where the athletes will go once the Games are over.
Taliban-resistant Afghan group forming a united front for negotiations
A group of veteran Afghan regional leaders against the Taliban government in Afghanistan plans to form a united front in the coming weeks in an effort to negotiate with the Islamist group, which took over the country earlier this month, according to a report.
“We prefer to negotiate collectively, because it is not that the problem of Afghanistan is solved by just one of us,” Khalid Noor, a prominent politician and son of a former governor of the country’s Balkh province, told Reuters. “Therefore, it is important that the entire political community in the country, especially the traditional leaders, those in power, with public support, participate.”
Noor said that while the Taliban were taking the country by force, they could not have a long government without the consensus of the country’s ethnic groups.
“The Taliban right now are very, very arrogant, because they have just won militarily,” Noor told Reuters.
Biden pledges to hold airstrikes against Islamic State-affiliated group responsible for bombing
After ISIS-K called for deadly suicide bombings at Kabul airport on Thursday that killed 13 U.S. service members and a large number of Afghans, the U.S. launched a retaliatory strike.
On Saturday, Biden promised to continue the strikes.
“This strike was not the last,” Biden said in a statement. “We will continue to prosecute anyone involved in that heinous attack and make them pay.”
Obama missed the opportunity to “transition” to Afghanistan, according to the retired general in the military
With U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan for two decades, four presidents share at least some of the blame for last week’s deadly Kabul disaster, says a retired army general.
But one of those presidents, Barack Obama, lost a “transition time” outside the Asian nation nearly a decade ago, so he extended the time of U.S. troops in the country for another ten years, he said. say retired General Dana Pittard.
Afghanistan was “the place where Al Qaeda made the plan to hit America and the Twin Towers. We went in for the right reasons,” Pittard recalled last week in an interview with Border Report, just two weeks ago. before the United States turns twenty, terrorist attacks claimed some 3,000 lives in New York City, Washington, DC, an area and a field in western Pennsylvania.
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These are members of the US service killed in the attack on Kabul airport
A terrorist attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed 11 Marines, an army soldier and a Navy corps on Thursday, injuring 20 more members of the service and causing even more carnage. Afghan civilians.
Service members maintained the airport as the Biden administration rushed to evacuate the U.S. and Afghan allies from the country after a swift Taliban offensive recovered from the country.
The terrorist group ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that sought to disrupt the massive evacuation effort of Americans, Afghan allies and third-country nationals outside the airport at the hands of the United States.
These are the men and women who gave their lives in support of a massive evacuation effort to save U.S. citizens and Afghan allies:
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U.S. Embassy Afghan embassy warns of “specific and credible” threat at Kabul airport
The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan warned early Sunday that “Due to a specific and credible threat, all U.S. citizens in the vicinity of Kabul Airport (HKIA), including the South Gate Circle Airport), the new Interior Ministry and the gate near the Panjshir gas station, on the northwest side of the airport, should leave the airport area immediately. “
The warning comes just days after the suicide bombings left 13 members of the US service and more than 160 Afghans dead.
The Pentagon said the remaining contingent of U.S. forces at the airport, which now has less than 4,000, had begun its final withdrawal ahead of Biden’s deadline to end evacuation on Tuesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
The United States faces the threat of Islamic extremists “already in our country”: retired army general
Radicalized terrorist sympathizers “who are already in our country” represent a “bigger problem” for the United States than any security problem on the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a retired U.S. Army general.
Retired General Dana Pittard, a former general in command of Fort Bliss in Texas, shared his remarks last week in an interview with Border Report, after bombings at Kabul airport in Afghanistan killed at least 13 members of the U.S. service and some twenty Afghan civilians.
Pittard not only knows the conditions of Fort Bliss, he also knows how to fight terrorists in combat: after leaving Fort Bliss in 2013, Pittard led U.S. troops against ISIS fighters in Iraq in 2014, according to Border Report.
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